Cast of Thousands

You can look back through these posts and check the previous times we've hosted the ATC enrolments. On this occasion it all went off more or less perfectly, even though there were no fewer than 23 new recruits to be sworn in. One of the NCOs put them all in alphabetical order and whispered their names to me as I went along the row shaking their hands. I didn't need to do that, but I think that it's a good gesture to make - a formal expression of welcome. This time the conversations withe relatives included questions about what being a 'chaplain' meant and what my hat is called, and you know the answer to that query if not the first.